Livestock limit in 156 Gallon

[mling]

I believe there is a general rule on how many inches of fish you should have per gallon of tank. What is this inch to gallon ratio ? I am trying to decide how many more fishes I can get for my 156 with 50G slump and deltec 600 skimmer.

I currently have the following

5 year old Black Ocellaris 2.5"
5 year old Pajama Cardinalfish 2"
2 year old Maroon Clown 2.5"
2 year old Flame Anglefish 2"
2 year old Bicolor Blenny 2"
Sailfin Tang 4"
Pacific Blue Tang 4"
Firefish 2"
Sixline wrasse 1.5"
Royal Gramma 1.5"

Knowing that the Sailfin and blue tang will get huge, I have stopped getting new fishes for now.
Considering another large fish like a power brown tang. Would that be one too many large fishes ? Should I stop and just maybe get a few more little guys ?

 

[Anonymous]

How is your algae control? That is the best measure of how many fish you can house. It all depends on your maintenance routine too. How often and how large of a WC do you normally do? How good does your skimmer work? How much more work are you willing to do to acccomodate more fish?

Louey

 

[mling]

Algae is under control and skimmer is working great. Weekly 20 gal (10%) water change.

Have about 160 lbs of LFI do plan to put more LR in it, probably another 25 to 50lbs

 

[Anonymous]

I believe there is a general rule on how many inches of fish you should have per gallon of tank.

If there is such a rule it's really flawed, since something like a clown fish which might not get bigger than a few inches surely shouldn't be counted the same as a tang which might get 10+ inches, and are very large swimmers.

Looking at your list I'd say you have too many fish as it is but then again I tend to run small fish loads (4 fish in a 180), so that's just me.